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Baton Exchange Faith-Work, Integrate! On-line Video Resource

Prepare to Launch: Your faith walk in the workplace of your 20s

An on-line learning video curriculum resource designed to help Christian students and young professionals transition faith-fully from the campus to their career, equipping them to be change agents for Christ in the global marketplace.

The curriculum tries to address current felt needs, anticipated felt needs and basic cross-cultural competencies for a more globally savvy change agent. Also, the curriculum tries to drill deeper than the meta-narrative level to a daily application level, but not so deep so as to bog down students who aren’t interested in all the nuances of the topic.

Real Life Application

Each video includes interviews with seasoned professionals and young professionals, who share how they are trying to apply the principles in that session.

Over 50 seasoned leaders and young professionals from four continents and seven market sectors including:

An individual or group facilitator can choose from the various sessions to meet their needs. The sessions can be used independently of each other.

Why? To help with the transition. Students, young professionals, campus ministers, and young adult pastors have noted the struggle Christian students experience when they move from a campus ministry or campus church environment to the workplace. Many drift away from their faith. Others struggle to figure out how God might use them in their new workplace context. We want to see these young adults not only survive the campus to career transition, but thrive as influencers for Christ.

be liberated and empowered to use gifts and vocational interests as your unique ministry in the marketplace

gain confidence in living and sharing your faith in the workplace context

receive insights from Christian marketplace leaders who have walked the path ahead

gain a strategic biblical framework for addressing social issues and transformation

learn at your convenience

How? The curriculum is designed with flexibility, so that a user can go through the sessions independently, or a campus minister or pastor can facilitate a small group discussion. A Facilitator’s Going Deeper guide is provided for each session.

Contact us about special rates for universities, churches and marketplace ministries

Benefits to campus ministries, pastors of young adults & universities

Those serving college students and young professionals can benefit from using what we have developed:

Faster to market through off-the-shelf product

Lower cost to market

Long-term maintenance handled by Baton Exchange

Up-to-date offering in niche area

Multiple user perspective via feedback loop drive product improvements. Organizations will benefit from the multiple feedback perspectives of a range of organizations, thus reducing the risk of group think from internal development of the curriculum.

World-class E-learning advisory board

Using the Video Curriculum: The Facilitator’s Mindset

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If you are a campus minister or university staff, approach using the curriculum from the perspective of wanting the student to use the spiritual and life skills foundation you have helped them build to transition from success on campus to success in the next big arena of life: the workplace. You want them to not only survive in the transition, but thrive beyond even your own dreams for them. Think of the video curriculum as the last stage of your discipleship and preparation effort before the student graduates and launches.

Part of the preparation of getting students ready to launch in their campus to career transition is to help them reframe their contextual perspective and expectations. Ideally, you would have been discipling, educating, and training them since your very first involvement to prepare for integrating faith into all areas of their life, casting a vision for life after college. Note that on-line learning is a tool and is not meant to, nor should, replace life to life interaction.

Timeline

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A couple months prior to their final semester, begin communicating to them that you will be helping them prepare to transition from campus to career by exploring a video series that will begin framing faith-work-career integration and life after college as a Christian. [If you will be asking the student to financially invest in their own preparation, then communicate that a healthy part of individual development is taking personal financial responsibility and that the cost is roughly equal to eating out once a week for a month.]

[For campus ministers.] During break between semesters, have them go on-line and review the Introduction video. Also, if you are a campus minister and meet weekly or every other week, you could use the curriculum for those meeting times to go over the video lessons together, or have them do it independently and get together to discuss. Below is a suggested format. We also encourage you to invite seasoned Christian marketplace leaders to your discussions. Both students and leaders love the interaction, and the leaders sometimes end up becoming donors and mentors. Your ministry’s donor development officer can help you identify guest leader candidates.

[For International Student Ministers] The material is not designed to make someone an expert in cross-cultural competencies, nor undertake the huge and complex task to address every cultural context (whether one’s home culture, work culture, or host culture.) It points users to “think home,” whether that be where they came from, where they currently are, or where they anticipate being after college.

[For university staff.] You may simply have the students do the video series independently, with little involvement from your staff. Once they complete the series, they could simply submit their certificate of completion, created by Baton Exchange, to you.

Group Session Format (Flex as needed)

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Catch up on life

Review action steps or homework (if any) from last session

Pass out worksheets and do any pre-video work as noted

Video 15-20 minutes

Worksheet Discussion Questions with optional context vignettes

Guided Journaling (can be done in session, assigned as homework, or skipped) and Go Do challenge

Quiz (for independent study folks)

The Baton Exchange Faith-Work, Integrate! Video Resources

Session Topics

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Session

Description

Introduction

Welcome. The how and why of the video curriculum.

Worldview & Work Culture

Everyone has a worldview and every company has a culture. Will you be able to engage with those who have a different one? Why is developing cross-cultural competence important?

Character, Competency, & Connection: Essential. Non-negotiable.

Want to make an impact? Strengthen your ability to share about Jesus? Be successful in your career and in leading? Excellence in competency, character and connection are essential.

Worship & Occupation

Is vocational ministry occupation the best calling for us? Is worshiping God through prayer, dance, and song the only way to worship? The basis for these questions- and corresponding answers- will be explored. What you discover may prove liberating!

Reflect God's Image: Man & Work

How is man like God, and what has God showed us about Himself regarding work? Learn about the different occupations that reflect God’s image (you’re probably pursuing one of them), and how to invite God into your work day.

Reflect God’s Image: Why Work?

We go deeper into the questions of how is man like God, His first commission to man, His expectation of us as workers, five reasons for work , and the New Testament profile of a good employee.

Kingdom Perspective

Is getting saved the ends or the means? What does God expect of us after we make our decision to follow him? What does it mean to live an integrated life?

Calling & Career

What are God’s thoughts about my vocational interests? What is calling and how would it affect my career journey? Personal Vision Statement’s value to guiding life choices.

Ethics- A Biblical Perspective

How will I handle unethical situations at work? Tools to guide you.

Sharing Christ @ Work: Prayer Foundations

The role of prayer in walking and sharing our faith in our workplace context.

Sharing Christ @ Work: Bridge Building

Building relationships at work: the essentials for connecting with co-workers.

“My first real job. I’m rich!...or not.” Biblical Stewardship and generosity. How to increase your impact and make a difference!

Justice in the City

What are God’s thoughts on issues of justice for the marginalized? What are big picture strategies for pursuing justice in a biblical manner? How do we actually work to address social issues God cares about? How do we help “seek the peace and prosperity of the city,” as described by the prophet Jeremiah?

Christians & Cultural Influence

What should be the role of a Christian in the world? Should they intentionally seek to influence their culture? If so, how?

Finding & Being Community

Finding a church; a mentor; friends. What’s a healthy community?

Faith @ Work in the World

Interviews from Christians in the global marketplace. What’s it like to walk out their faith in their context?

Campus2Career Launch: Life After College

Advice from various Christian marketplace leaders and young professionals on transitioning into the workplace as a Christian.